Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This microscope image provided by Osaka University and the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in October 2024, shows the ...

If you look at a mouse sperm cell through a microscope, as postdoctoral researcher Kristin Hook did hundreds of times while working in Heidi Fisher’s lab at the University of Maryland, College Park, ...

Using a tiny, spherical glass lens sandwiched between two brass plates, the 17th-century Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first to officially describe red blood cells and sperm cells ...

Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek made extraordinary observations of blood cells, sperm cells and bacteria with his microscopes. But it turns out the lens technology he used was quite ordinary.

When considering how sperm move, the word "swimmers" comes to mind. The classic microscopic image is of a tiny cell swishing its tail from side to side as it propels forward. A new 3D model upends ...

Katsuhiko Hayashi, a developmental geneticist at Osaka University, is working on ways to make what he calls "artificial" eggs and sperm from any cell in the human body. (Kosuke Okahara for NPR) ...

Update 5/29/2021, 10:15 a.m.: On May 1, 2021, the authors of the study covered in this article asked the journal to retract their work following concerns from outside scientists about the mathematical ...